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Print made by John Bell, 1811–1895, British, Diavoli Pescatori, between 1838 and 1850
- Title:
- Diavoli Pescatori
- Date:
- between 1838 and 1850
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with cream chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches (28.2 x 37.9 cm), Plate: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), Image: 5 1/8 x 6 3/16 inches (13 x 15.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on front, upper right: "a duplicate"; on back, lower center: "Design (poetry | ?) & etching by John Bell"
Lettered, etched in brown ink, lower left under image: "DIAVOLI PESCATORI"; lower center: "THUS DOE THE DEVVIES FISHE FOR SOWLES OF MENNE | AND FYRSTE FOR GROUNDE BAYTE THROWE THEY IN MOCHE VANITIE | AT WHYCHE FOR THE FOOLIS DOE CHUCKLE MOCHE AND THENNE | ALL NEEDLESSE OF THE HOOKES WHYCHE SHEWETH THEIR INSANITIE | THEY EAGER BYTE AND KETCHED ARE. HOW WEAKE IS POORE HUMANITIE"; lower right under image: "JOHN BELL ETCH : CLUB"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1991.16.6
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | bows | cardinal sins | clawed lobsters | costume | crabs | dancing | death | devil | dresses | feathers | fencing | fighting | fish | fishermen (people) | fishing | flirting | gluttony | greed | historical subject | hooks | lake | lust | mermaids | monsters | personification | pride | shore (landform) | sins | sloth | vanity | women | wrath
- Associated People:
- demons
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3173
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